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It’s simple: all you have to do is either A: practice until you can successfully lose all motor control within 2 seconds of hearing the words “net neutrality repeal”, or B: practice word association until the only thing you can think of when you hear the word “immigrant” is a swarm of cockroaches pouring out from behind drywall.

I mislike this. Hast thou a blog? Newsletter such that one might subscribe? Prithee, this is bullshit. Your spelling is superb, and I have not given you proper applause for this vanishingly rare skill. But I noticed, Ed, despite your lack of leather fashion wear.

If the ability to properly spell an anarcho-capitalist libertarian philosophy is sexxy-bitchism, Kray-Kray, is, like, Pamela Anderson running on a beach. Or whatever is the opposite of Megan Fox’s thumbs.

This is national news because there is talk of arming more teachers. SEE this is such a bad idea. Lets go back to banning guns says every lefty eva.

You rarely hear of about the cops, military, and other people who fuck up and misfire their weapons where nobody gets hurt. The media never advocates disarming cops and security forces for people like Hillary Clinton.

Police officers are trained to handle and use firearms in ways that civilian instructors teach people not to, and even in ways that would get civilians sent to prison. A cop with a gun, bearing and using it according to his training, is much more dangerous with it than a civilian who has received and follows normally taught and advocated practices.

Ah, always a classic. These are some mature-ass kids in that classroom; anyone I grew up with would have been laughing their asses off right from the moment the sound wave hit their little eardrums. I’d still do that today, come to think of it.

Though you missed the full video with the almost as good second part, where the fed tries to go on with the presentation even standing there with the hole in his foot, and calls for another gun to be handed to him to show to the class and the class starts howling at him to please not do that.

Exactly. I’m a purist. If this bracket is to mean anything, if it is to have any integrity, it cannot be something we use to make other gestures. This is not a “most exasperatingly over-the-top cosmo” contest. Robby actually has a relationship with the commenters, actually trolls us. Shikha is just someone whose pieces appear here for some reason we have never been able to fathom. We might as well put some dude from Vox into this bracket, as much sense as it makes sense to include her. Robby 4Ever!

You’re right. It can take ten years to attain citizenship. That’s ridiculous. Technology should allow for a more streamlined process, which shouldn’t take more than three years even with all the civics testing, background checks, etc.. With some kind of phasing for residency, work permits, etc.. All with much less paperwork than is currently required. Work VISA’s should be something that can be completed in a matter of weeks, or less.

None of this stuff has to be as slow and cumbersome as it is now, and it would also make it easier on the government support staff that processes all of it.

Florida teen goes on a stabbing spree for Islam. If a child dies at the hands of a radical Muslim, it is just one of those things. It is not worth covering and totally different than when a child is killed by an evil gun!!

If it didn’t involve Muslims, it would make the TV networks and be a lead for at least a week. The idea that a Muslim might be violent is something that is just so unbelievable that it can’t be covered.

“My work has led me to be strongly, unambiguously, and unapologetically opposed to male circumcision. Yet there is nothing antisemitic or Islamophobic about my argument…over the last couple of years I have presented my arguments at various academic conferences and events, with many Jewish and Muslim participants.

“The discussions were controversial but almost always respectful. They revealed that there is considerable debate among Jews and Muslims about the pros and cons of circumcision….We may not be able to reach agreement, and sharp divisions may remain. But we display the courage to look each other in the eye, go through the hassle of trying to develop the best possible argument for our view, and bring up the patience to listen to the other side’s views, trying to reach some common ground. In short, we treat each other as moral agents. It’s a very democratic thing to do.”

Ev’ry time that I look on the table, I know damn well I can’t watch the cable – Remote is gone. It went bye ‘tween dusk and dawn, Isn’t that the way? Ev’rybody got excuse and lies, they say. I know nobody knows Where it went or where it goes, I know, everybody’s clean, You got two kids, you know what I mean.

Half my day’s in frustrated rages, I wanna lock the damn kids in cages, You know it’s true. All the lost things won’t come back to you. Scream with me, scream for batteries, Scream for the scissors, scream for tape please, Scream with me just for today, Maybe tomorrow the lost things will come your way.

Sorry, just had to get that off my chest after the 1297th consecutive day of nobody having the slightest idea where the remote might be. And acting like they only have a vague idea what a remote even is, but they’re sure they’ve never touched it.

“Pittsburgh plans to replace a controversial statue of Antebellum (sic) songwriter Stephen Foster with one honoring African American women, the Office of Mayor Bill Peduto said Wednesday….

“Peduto last month announced that the city in April would relocate the Foster statue from its long-time home on Forbes Avenue at the entrance to Schenley Park to a private location with public access….

“The statue has triggered controversy because it depicts Foster, who lived in Lawrenceville, standing above what many have described as a black slave strumming a banjo. Critics describe it as demeaning to blacks while others view it as Foster gaining inspiration from a black musician.”

The sculptor probably put Banjo Man in to be more culturally sensitive; in any case that’s the effect. He could have ignored the influence of black musicians on Foster altogether, but instead he explicitly acknowledged it. Nowadays, he’d know he’d only have a prayer of getting away with that if he made Foster the secondary figure in his own statue, but there’s nothing remotely undignified about the black figure or its posture in this one.

Is he a “slave”? Presumably so. Unfortunately the regrettably pre-2010 sculptor seems to have forgotten that ignoring unpleasant history is now considered enlightened. The figure should have been a black neurosurgeon, because there were all kinds of those folks in this country back then. Maybe David Irving can design Pittsburgh a woke new Auschwitz memorial, with prosperous well-fed Jewish kids frolicking all over the place at their government-subsidized free Hebrew camp. It would sure avoid making anyone uncomfortable, unlike those old, triggering Auschwitz memorials.

Make no mistake, this objections are the work of low-IQ, hardline anti-“cultural appropriation” blacks and the even lower-IQ whites who think it’s their job to “affirm” whatever low-IQ shit comes out of black mouths. Nobody even dreamed of objecting to this statue before two years ago–maybe two weeks for all we know.

Jgalt1975|3.14.18 @ 2:39PM|# Since (a) Trump has been actively lying about the results of special elections (“5-0!”), and (b) Saccone and his supporters outspent the Democrat by a substantial margin, it’s clearly not just a “lefty narrative point,” it’s a Trumpian/GOP narrative point too.

Tony, this link goes to Communist News Network and they have no citations that back up what they are saying.

They cannot prove how much Congressional Leadership Fund paid for a commercial. CFF does admit on their website that they paid for a commercial for Saccone but their website does not list how much they spent.

Re McCabe: only in America can you fire a “former” employee. But I guess if he is still “technically” an employee, technically firing him is the only way. From the link:

“The recommendation from the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility is likely to add fuel to the political fire surrounding former deputy director Andrew McCabe, who abruptly stepped down from his post earlier this year but technically remained an FBI employee.’

I assume that “stepp[ing] down from his post” means that while he no longer held his position as “deputy director” he was still an agent in the FBI.

I think that might be similar to a military commander being relieved of his position (eg Captain of a ship or CO of a unit) but still being an officer in whatever branch he was a member of. Dismissing someone from the service takes a few more steps, IIANM.

Bureaucracies are complicated that way. It even happens in the private sector. I recall someone I knew at a company I had formerly worked for being removed as a manager of a department and demoted to a job in sales.

e is the shit! Also easier to memorize the first few digits of. 2.7 Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson Isoceles Right Triangle. I couldn’t even tell you a digit of pi past 3.14. You never really need to know the approximate value of either one anyway in actual math of course; might be 45.14 for all I care. I think pi memorization is probably mostly for Indian kids. Indian parents like to make sure their kids waste at least some amount of time on utterly useless shit like that or spelling bees, as a gesture of goodwill to the other races to make the college competition fairer for the rest of our kids.